Vriesea lutheri

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Overview

Vulnerable

Description

Family Bromeliaceae

Herbs or rarely shrubs , epiphytic, lithophytic, or terrestrial . Leaves spirally arranged , usually rosulate, sessile, simple , veins parallel, base dilated , sheathing , margin often spinose serrate or sometimes entire. Inflorescence terminal or lateral , scapose or sessile, a panicle, raceme , spike, or head , sometimes reduced to solitary, pseudolateral flowers; bracts usually brightly colored and conspicuous . Flowers bisexual or sometimes functionally unisexual , 3-merous. Sepals and petals each 3, distinct , free or basally connate ; petals often brightly colored, basal margin with a pair of scalelike appendages . Stamens 6, in 2 whorls of 3; filaments free, connate, or collectively or individually adnate to petals; anthers 2-celled, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Gynoecium of 3 carpels united to form a compound , 3-loculed, superior or very often partly or wholly inferior ovary ; ovules few to usually ± numerous in each locule; placentation axile . Style terminal and often 3-parted; stigmas papillose . Fruit a berry or less often a septicidal capsule, or seldom compound and fleshy . Seeds usually winged or plumose ; endosperm mealy ; embryo small to fairly large.

About 50 genera and 2000--2600 species: mainly tropical America, except for Pitcairnia feliciana (A. Chevalier) Harms & Mildbraed in tropical W Africa; one species (introduced ) in China.[1]

Habitat

Ecology: High Andean forest (2,690 m ).[2]


List of Habitats :1.9Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Vriesea

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 472 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

V. acuminata · V. agostiniana · V. albiflora · V. albo-rubrobracteata · V. alta · V. altimontana · V. altodaserrae · V. altomacaensis · V. amadoi · V. amazonica · V. amethystina · V. ampla · V. andreettae · V. 'Annie' (Bromeliad) · V. antillana · V. apiculata · V. 'Apollo' · V. appariciana · V. appendiculata · V. appenii · V. arachnoidea · V. arpocalyx · V. atra · V. atrococcinea · V. atropurpurea · V. attenuata · V. bahiana · V. balanophora · V. 'Barbara' (Bromeliad) · V. barclayana · V. barclayana var. barclayana · V. barclayana var. minor · V. barii · V. barilleti · V. barilletii · V. barilletii E.Morren 'Lackrof' · V. belloi · V. bi-beatricis · V. bicolor · V. biguassuensis · V. billbergioides · V. bituminosa · V. bituminosa Wawra var. bituminosa · V. bleheri · V. blokii · V. boeghii · V. botafogensis · V. brachyphylla · V. bracteosa · V. brasiliana · V. brassicoides · V. breedloveana · V. breviscapa · V. broadwayi · V. brunei · V. brusquensis · V. burgeri · V. cacuminis · V. caespitosa · V. calimaniana · V. camptoclada · V. capitata · V. capituligera · V. capixabae · V. carinata (Painted Feather) · V. 'Carly' (Bromeliad) · V. castaneo-bulbosa · V. castaneobulbosa · V. cathcartii · V. 'Cathy' · V. cearensis · V. cereicola · V. chapadensis · V. 'Charlotte' (Bromeliad) · V. chiapensis · V. chontalensis · V. 'Christiane' · V. chrysostachys · V. citrina · V. clausseniana · V. 'Clementine' · V. colnagoi · V. comata · V. 'Condor' · V. conferta · V. confusa · V. corallina · V. corcovadensis · V. cornus-cervi · V. correia-arauji · V. costae · V. cowellii · V. crassa · V. crassiflora · V. crenulipetala · V. croceana · V. curvispica · V. cylindracea · V. cylindrica · V. debilis

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Further Reading

• Valencia, R., Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. and Jørgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
• Valencia, R., Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. and Jørgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endémicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
• Ma Weiliang. 1997. Bromeliaceae. In: Wu Kuo-fang, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 13(3): 64--68.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 1, 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 27, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• Manzanares, J.M. & Pitman, N. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 27, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 7150744
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:320143-2
• IUCN ID: 43359
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1026879

Footnotes

1. Wei-liang Ma & Bruce Bartholomew "Bromeliaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 24 Page 18. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Manzanares, J.M. & Pitman, N. 2003. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 19, 2008. [back]

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